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Northern Spain Insight Guide (Insight Guides) (Paperback)

by Teresa Farino (Author)
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  • Paperback: 348 pages
  • Publisher: APA Publications Pte Ltd; 3rd Revised edition edition (30 May 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 9812349200
  • ISBN-13: 978-9812349200
  • Product Dimensions: 22.2 x 14.6 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 326,436 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This 348-page guidebook includes a section detailing Northern Spain's history, 12 features covering aspects of its life and culture, ranging from Santiago de Compostela's pilgrim route to Pamplona's annual wild bull run, a region by region visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. The key features include: Places - region-by-region gazetteer section, with top attractions highlighted and cross-referenced with detailed local maps; Essay Features - incisive essays on the islands' history, people and culture; Photo Features - magazine-style full-colour features on some of the region's most exotic attractions, including Bilbao's spectacular Guggenheim Art Museum and the Picos de Europa; and Travel Tips - practical listings section, including accommodation, restaurants, pubs, bars and cafes, entertainment, nightlife, transport and essential contact addresses and numbers. It also includes hundreds of top-notch photographs and 20 maps.

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24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Good overview - Poor on detail, 9 Aug 2005
By H. Sherman "heieup" (UK) - See all my reviews
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This book is one of the worst guides I have ever had the misfortune to purchase.

As with most insight guides it gives a good overview on the area, its people and culture. However, individual area guides are sparse and miss a great deal of items which are well worth a visit.

The town maps provided for each major town are appalling and cannot be used. Street names and names of squares are incorrect on many maps and on the map of Bilbao, they have 5 of the main sights in the wrong location on the map (they even misplace the Guggenheim). The top ten list of things to visit includes a church which when looked at in detail in the detail section is 'not of especial interest'.

Overall it is poorly put together, the information in it is unreliable and as such can't really be used. Buy something smaller and with more detail instead.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Packed with detail, very accessible, 25 Feb 2006
A great combination of photographs and well-informed text, this is a great book to accompany any holiday in the region. It combines cultural and natural history, kicking off with easily digested chapters on food, drink, people, history, wildlife, architecture and other key issues. Then, it takes you on a tour of the regions. Each of these chapters is accompanied by an excellent, clear route-finding map and simple but clear maps of major towns. A great idea is the brief digest of phrases not only in Castillian but also in five local languages and French, too. There's a limted but practical guide to places to eat and stay, too.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars thank you insight guides, 7 Feb 2004
This review is from: Northern Spain Insight Guide (Insight Guides) (Paperback)
A search for books on Spain may reveal 2000 books but very few will be for the north of this great peninsular... why? because 90% of the english speaking world probably considers Spain to be a country bordering the mediterranean. Other than standing in the travelshop of VIPS or the May Book Fair in Madrid the book choice for those who want to see Atlantic Spain is very limited as a result. The Insight book is a good general guide to an area which seems as big as a continent with a geography, history and cultural diversity more varied than any similar region in europe. If you have not been to Spain or have already seen the south getting this book is a good option. The region is so big it is best to find one or two areas that suit you and head for them unless you have a month or more to spend.
Sadly only on arrival will you find the books pitfall is the actual local information is very generalised and you will be reliant on local tourist offices to pad it out a bit, The Rioja section is an example, from start to finish the coverage appears to be a day trip from Logroño the capital, it misses a lot about 'the Cameros' the mountain villages to the south, Alfaro as a town famous in Spain for it's storks, and the Balcon de Rioja and the Alavesa region on the north bank of the Ebro which as a Basque region is covered very lightly in that section although the two places are one and you will drive in and out of the two states all day. I was lucky and had the book whilst taken around by friends native to the area which only helped highlight the inadequacies as i found places missing, I was equally frustrated at the coverage of Navarra which was similarly limited. However it is a big place and hard to cover in one book, the autonomous states have good local guides often free that compliment this book with the missing detail. It really needs to be twice the size to start to provide the area with its much needed total referance guide
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